Thanks Graham. An excellent read. It’s maybe an obvious point, but I think that the proliferation of the expert class is, in part, simply a result of the bureaucracy’s desire to grow.
It needs to justify the new department, the extra £5m of funding, and experts are ready to provide that justification by explaining logically that there is a problem which can only be fixed by an extra department, or £5m of funding.
This is clearest with DEI. Which, ideology aside, is simply an example of ‘experts’ creating a non existent problem, and then demanding experts are brought in to fix it. And so the bureaucracy grows.
Thank you. Yes it is in part a spin off from bureaucracy But as I've tried to illustrate, I do think there is a parallel track....one that has to do with mass-culture-meets-human-nature.
Yes Graham. As you say, ‘playing school’. We’re all infants now, seeking definitive answers to essentially unanswerable questions. I guess the ‘experts’ offer that. Like old fashioned sages maybe.
Covid was a good example. No one knew anything at the start. But the experts were on hand to offer strict guide rails for how we were to behave. And people thanked them for it, and cleaved to them.
Thanks Graham. An excellent read. It’s maybe an obvious point, but I think that the proliferation of the expert class is, in part, simply a result of the bureaucracy’s desire to grow.
It needs to justify the new department, the extra £5m of funding, and experts are ready to provide that justification by explaining logically that there is a problem which can only be fixed by an extra department, or £5m of funding.
This is clearest with DEI. Which, ideology aside, is simply an example of ‘experts’ creating a non existent problem, and then demanding experts are brought in to fix it. And so the bureaucracy grows.
Celebrity chefs however, defy all logic.
Thank you. Yes it is in part a spin off from bureaucracy But as I've tried to illustrate, I do think there is a parallel track....one that has to do with mass-culture-meets-human-nature.
Yes Graham. As you say, ‘playing school’. We’re all infants now, seeking definitive answers to essentially unanswerable questions. I guess the ‘experts’ offer that. Like old fashioned sages maybe.
Covid was a good example. No one knew anything at the start. But the experts were on hand to offer strict guide rails for how we were to behave. And people thanked them for it, and cleaved to them.
Sounds like Japanese knotweed that is just keeps growing and we don’t know how to stop it.
"Celebrity chefs however, defy all logic."
We all like to eat, even if we don't all like to cook. :-)
Now, the martinet staff browbeating versions are a turnoff.
Yes! All the fake jeopardy. Calm down mate. You’re only making a pie….
...but it's American pie!